Can you rewire your brain? (aeon.co)

Phineas Gage famously did, accidentally.

No mention of Imperial College's psychedelic programme and it's recent findings re neuroplasticity.

When I started studying German vocab intensively (up to B1 now) I started with notecards and it took like a couple of weeks per 10 words (verbs with conjugations and nouns plus genders). At some point things rewired and now 10 words a day is pretty simple.

for better and for worse, the answer is yes

The assumption that “rewiring” means something like “clean engineering where parts can be cleanly replaced” seems a little faulty to me. Maybe I spend too much time around wires, but “rewiring” to me means “a lot of time, a lot of difficulty, and a lot of effort to wrangle a complicated mess of interconnected things.” Which seems about how the brain is.